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<LI><em>To</em>: "'<A HREF="mailto:mud-dev#kanga,nu">mud-dev#kanga,nu</A>'" <<A HREF="mailto:mud-dev#kanga,nu">mud-dev#kanga,nu</A>></LI>
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<LI><em>From</em>: "Koster, Raph" <<A HREF="mailto:rkoster#origin,ea.com">rkoster#origin,ea.com</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 09:37:55 -0600</LI>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: J C Lawrence [<A HREF="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com</A>]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 1999 6:12 PM
> To: mud-dev#kanga,nu
> Subject: [MUD-Dev] Re: MUD Design doc (long)
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> An idea I've had for approaching this is creating a time-ordered
> queue which is attached to characters which stores identifying
> characteristics of objects met. This would allow things like:
>
> > l
> There is an elf dancing a jig here.
> ...several hours of play later...
> > tell @dancing elf@ Hi!
>
> with the queue being consulted for a fair memory match to "dancing
> elf" etc.
>
> This probably would not work as-is. For one the storage overhead
> across the character base is enourmous.
To be honest, the storage overhead just for private namespaces seems
prohibitive to me. How much memory do you plan to use, and what machine
are you running it on, and what other things do you expect to have going
on?
-Raph
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00115" HREF="msg00115.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: MUD Design doc (long)</A></strong>,
Ling <a href="mailto:K.L.Lo-94#student,lboro.ac.uk">K.L.Lo-94#student,lboro.ac.uk</a>, Tue 12 Jan 1999, 15:53 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00121" HREF="msg00121.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: MUD Design doc (long)</A></strong>,
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Wed 13 Jan 1999, 00:19 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00119" HREF="msg00119.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: MUD Design doc (long)</A></strong>,
Mik Clarke <a href="mailto:mikclrk#ibm,net">mikclrk#ibm,net</a>, Tue 12 Jan 1999, 21:06 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00124" HREF="msg00124.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: MUD Design doc (long)</A></strong>,
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Wed 13 Jan 1999, 01:17 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00130" HREF="msg00130.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: MUD Design doc (long)</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00146" HREF="msg00146.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: MUD Design doc (long)</A></strong>,
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Wed 13 Jan 1999, 23:34 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00009" HREF="msg00009.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Graphic design, client questions</A></strong>,
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Thu 24 Dec 1998, 07:57 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00000" HREF="msg00000.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Graphic design, client questions</A></strong>,
Jay Carlson <a href="mailto:nop#mitre,org">nop#mitre,org</a>, Wed 30 Dec 1998, 16:49 GMT
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